09/03/2017

My name is Liz Foley. I love my accounting job because I’d rather deal with numbers than talk to people.

My best traits:

I have (RBF) Resting Bitch Face.

I give snarky come-backs.

I have no friends.

My worst traits:

I speak in run-on sentences when I get nervous.

I’m attracted to assholes.

I’m broke.

Enter Finnigan Walsh – the new guy at work.

His best traits:

He’s kind of hot, I suppose.

He has a working car.

He sings to me and brings me coffee.

Nothing ever gets to him, even when I add more people to our carpool.

His worst traits:

See above

I don’t like him. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself.

After all, it’s not about how fast you get there. It’s the journey. Right?

Damn this carpool.

You’d better buckle up.

Dawn L. Chiletz is the author of The Contest, Waiting to Lose, Enough, Can't You See, and The Fabulist. She currently resides in Illinois with her husband, two boys, and three dogs. In the summer of 2014, armed with a dream from the night before, she sat at her kitchen table while her boys played on their computers and began the first words of “The Contest.” She’s been writing and drinking large amounts of coffee ever since.